The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-12
WOMEN AND THEIR DoINGs.
The Large Amount of Money Spent for
TrifeS

TriheS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-A slender woman
with short brown curly hair and very pretty
bonnet that yet somehow was not New
York bonnet was looking at carpets at the
warerooms of prominent manufacturer
the other day.
Her face had the round, almost childish
outline which one woman in some thou
sands preserves beyond 80, and her ewes
We're big and brown and shy, of the sort
which the average man, or woman either,
always succumbs to. She was daintily
dressed and she had dainty manners. Her
tones were low and feminine, yet she was
SO far unsexed that she was giving largish
order in straig htforward, civilized busi-
ness-llke way.
DO many women buyers visit your
asked experimentally with my eyes ON the
brown curls.
"Three or four week, perhaps, and the
number is increasing. That woman there
is the largest of the feminine buyers, and
she has romantic story if you care to hear
1T. Nice eyes, hasn't shel"
She is not so pretty now, though, as she
was when saw her first. That was, yes it
must be ten years ago. She had rosy color
then, and she looked the happiest creature
in the world
Her father and her lover brought her
here one day. Her father was prosperous
carpet dealer in an Iowa town on a business
trip to the city, and the lover who was his
clerk just admitted to junior partnership
She was going to carry one of them off to a
matinee and drop in here to pass an hour be-
fore theatre time.
THE three of them looked at carpets to-
gether and the girl was bubbling over with
laughter and sunshine. She proposed to
help the men in their stock replenishing and
they were surprised to find that she had
very common-sense views as to what her
neighbors at home would or would not
buy. Half in. jest they let her make
her own selections, and she chose fifty
to one hundred rolls with amazing discrim-
nation.
at was a week after that, / suppose,
when the party went home. There was a
railroad accident, and the lover was killed
and the father manned. Do you suppose
that girl sat down and let her life run
t. rough her fingersa Not she. She took her
fathers business, and has been customer
of ours ever since, turning up twice year
as regularly as the seasons come around.
She is making money and is a successful
business woman. Has a bigger store than
her father had, they tell ME.
She has never married and l don't be-
lleNo she ever Will.
81 have fancy sometime that she trades
here because she associates us with the time
before her lover died."
And do your other women buyers make
good business meng"
CLOSEST buyers we have, some of them.
know one woman whose husband owns a
large curtain, upholstering and carpet bust
ness, in fact a general house furnishing
store, and that woman knows more of the
actual details of the business than he does,
though he's no fool, let me tell you. One
of our women buyers has taken to de-
signing also, and she brought me one of
the prettiest carpet designs that 1 have
ever seen, a while ago. We were only too
glad to make it up for her, and the pattern
is now one of the best selling 'bVdys' we
have in stock"
But don't you find that women as rule
are more easily influenced than menl"
Not in business Once let a woman I'M
derstand thoroughly what she is about and
she will never be imposed on. She will
give her attention to every detail choose
her goods with perfect knowledge of her
market, and exercise much better taste than
the average male buyer 1t is all in her line
as house furnisher. Add business sense to
her natural home-making instincts and you
have an ideal carpet buyer. l think l could
give you the names of two dozen lady buy
ers who visit us often, and they are one and
all doing well.
There is deal of money floating around
in the world nowadays and respectable
proportion of it goes into trifies for women.
Somebody showed me an ostrich feather
fan in Broadway store yesterday. Its sticks
were OF chosen pieces of mother of pearl
inlaid with gold. On each was set a
tiny golden rose and in the heart of each rose
sparkled a diamond. The ostrich plumes
were thick and heavy, such feathers as one
seldom sees. Each was chosen expressly for
its position, and the whole made the dainti-
est white toy that ever a woman played
with. 1t was to cost 81, 900 and was meant,
was told, for a Christmas gift to Mrs.
George Gould. 1t was ordered by friend
of the family or by one of the younger Gould
boys and will outshine anything in Pauline
Halls famous collection.
People not so rich as the Goulds, plain,
ordinary, everyday millionaires, are put
ting years income for many hard-work-
ing folk into similar toilet trihes. | have
seen within the week an umbrella which is
to belong to woman unknown to fame,
but which has eaten up money at an extra
ordinary rate. 1t has a cover of silk, hand
woven, by Brooklyn man who alone pos
sesses the secret of its peculiar sheen. Its
handle is long hook of hard wood over
laid with oxydized silver upon which are
set curios of all sorts, each in its way an
artistic gem. There are daintily cut canoes,
old gold coin, snakes outlined in rubies,
toad in emeralds, head of Bacchus etched
in silver--every odd notion that the fancy
can devise, all to make an umbrella such
as no woman ever carried before.
A jeweled watch is set in the end of the
stick and the price is counted in the hun
dreds. ELIZA P. HEAToN.